Virgil
Known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.
Varium et mutabile semper
femina.
Iamque vale: feror ingenti circumdata nocte
Invalidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas!
Women were ever things of many changing moods.
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
Auri sacra fames?
Aestuat ingens
Imo in corde pudor mixtoque insania luctu
Et furiis agitatus amor et conscia virtus.
Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt,
Nulla dies uuquam memori vos eximet aevo.
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.
Ma Virgilio n'avea lasciati scemi
di sé, Virgilio, dolcissimo patre,
Virgilio a cui per mia salute die'mi.
I was stunned, my hair stood on end, and my voice clung to my jaws.
Interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat.
Equo ne credite, Teucri.
quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
Facilis descensus Averni:
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est.
Ignavum fucos pecus a praesepibus arcent.
Rumour is of all pests the swiftest.